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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to unpack kernel source code ? Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:51:01 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <454bsl$egb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <450h9k$i9f@bilbo.nask.org.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jaroslaw Bazydlo <jarekb@ire.pw.edu.pl> wrote: >I want to install a kernel source code in my system. I've downloaded a src/* >files. The question is how to unpack and install it. I noticed it is not a >tar/gziped archive. Mayby it has something to do with CPIO. cd /usr/src cat /cdrom/dists/src/ssys.* | gzip -d -c | tar -xvf - -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)